“Over a year has passed since the last sample of polio was found here. We can safely say that we have successfully eradicated polio in Egypt.”
Faten Kamel
“It would be very hard for polio to gain a foothold here in Middlesex-London.”
Graham Pollett
“In celebrating the 50th anniversary of Canada's program of universal polio vaccination, we are indeed recognizing an important milestone in Canadian history, ... Although many of our memories associated with polio are somber, this stamp is a celebration of the fact that polio is indeed just a memory in Canada .”
John McCallum
“The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,”
Siti Fadillah Supari
“We should commit resources, as we did to conquer polio in the fifties. We could quadruple the Alzheimer's budget and not saturate all clinical trials and possible targets. If we don't there will be hell to pay in twenty years.”
John Trojanowski
“However, these cases do serve to underscore the importance of making sure your immunizations are up to date for polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases,”
Harry Hull
“Polio is not only an issue in Indonesia ... but it's an international issue. That virus, just as it came here from the African continent, could now go from here to a neighboring country and become implanted in that country if protection rates for polio were low.”
David Heymann
